Calendar device



A. N. PEFFLY.

CALENDAR DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.4, 1 922.

1 439 1 1 2 Patented Se t 26, 1922.

MWrmmmm Patented Sept. 26, 1922.

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CALENDAR DEVICE.

Application filed March 4-,

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALoNzo N. PEFFLY, a citizen. of the United States, and resident of the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Calendar Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object an article of manufacture to be placed on desks or other convenient locations and having contained therein means and mechanism for exposing calendar, which calendar is formed on a long strip and wound upon rollers in such a way as to enable any desired portion as any given month, week or day to appear on the face of the device and which by the winding of the strip brings different calendar periods under the exposed glass.

I also prefer to arrange in combination with the same calendar casing, ink wells or other useful features.

.Jrnother object is a device where the successive calendar periods may be removed from the strip when desired.

Another object is a calendar device having a long strip containing calendar periods printed thereon and which strip may be pulled out by the fingers to determine any future calendar period and may be rewound within the deviceafter such reference use.

Another object is means whereby portions of the calendar strip may be from time to time readily torn off to correspond with elapsed periods.

By referring to the accompanying draw ings my invention will be made clear.

Figure 1. is a })I.S}')G(Zt1'V(-) view of one form of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan section of the device on the line II-II of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a side section on the line 111-111 of Fig. 2.

Throughout the figures similar numerals refer to identical. parts.

The casing is indicated by the numeral 1 in which an opening suitable for receiving the frame and mechanism is provided. The rear of this opening may be closed by the shutter 2 and from the front I slide therein the frame 3, which latter has a perforated or exposed front within which is fitted the glass plate 4.. The glass plate 1 extends downward and has its lower exposed edge 5 adjacent to the paper strip 6-7 so that the lower edge 5 of the glass may be em- 1922. Serial No. 541,033.

ployed as a cutting edge for tearing off the paper strip, after it has been pulled out as indicated by 7. v t The strip is adapted to have printed on ts surface any suitable calendar periods as indicated by the month January shown in Mg. 1; which being exposed under the glass 421s readily observable from the outside. The frame 3 is provided with side members 8, S which normally spring apart slightly as indicated by the dotted lines 10, 10, and when nserted within the casing said sides 8, 9, l e against the casing walls 11, 12, respectively, with a spring tension suflicient: to hold the partsin place: At 13 is a friction roller preferably covered with rubber orother elastic material 14, and pivotally mounted in the walls 8, 9, so that the elastic material let normally presses lightly against the glass 1 and between which elastic material and the glass the paper strip is adapted to be advanced. At 15 is an. idler and at 16 a master roller on which the calendar strip is wound as shown at 17. The rollers 13, 16, and the idler 15 I prefer to mount pivot-ally between the walls 8, 9. 1n the base 18 of the casing 1 I provide ink wells or other desk devices as 19, 20. The rollers 13, 16, are adapted to be externally operated. bv the finger members 21, 22, extending through the casing. see Figs. 1 and 2.

lit will now be seen that when the calendar strip 1.7 is passed over the idler 15 and between the glass 1- and the elastic surface 14 of the roller 13, it may be advanced by rotating the finger member 21 thus forcing the strip out as shown at 7, Fig. 3. By grasping the exposed portion of the strip with the fingers it may readilv be torn against the cutting edge 5 of the glass 4-. thus removing that portion of the calendar corresponding with any elapsed period. Of, if it is desired to refer to any future portion of the calendar the strip may be slightly advanced by the roller 13 until the strip is exposed at 7 and may then be grasped in the fingers and the strip pulled out as far as desired and after so referring to the future calendar period, the strip may again be wound on the roller 16 by the operating finger member 22 and with any desired calendar period remaining exposed as at 6 under the glass plate 4.

I claim:

1. A calendar device comprising an en- Vance the strip, and a glass plate covering said front perforation and havingvits. lower edge exposed adjacent the friction roller,

as and for the purpose set forth.

2. Acalendardevice'as'set forth in claim 1 wherein the rollers and idler are pivotally supported from said frame sides, and

wherein saidriopening extends through said casing, and closure means for the opening in the back of the casing.

ALoNZo N. PE FFLY. 

